GOOD - break into my house, take a number. Your number might be "38"...

GOOD - break into my house, take a number. Your number might be "38"...

This is a discussion on GOOD - break into my house, take a number. Your number might be "38"... within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Suspected pot smoker shot after wandering into stranger's home
by Marissa Wingate / 3TV
PHOENIX, AZ - A suspected pot smoker picks the wrong home ...

GOOD - break into my house, take a number. Your number might be "38"...

PHOENIX, AZ - A suspected pot smoker picks the wrong home to wander into and it turns out the homeowner had a gun and was not taking any chances.

That homeowner tells 3TV he would pull the trigger again to protect his family. The homeowner says it was terrifying. He was fast asleep when his dog started barking then he saw a man standing inside his house so he shot him.

The man says about her dog, "She did her job, kept him from who knows what he would have done, we were sound asleep."
The suspect jumped out of an apartment window when police arrived after receiving a loud noise complaint. Andy Hill, with Phoenix police, says, "As they got to the front door they confronted someone who happened to have a joint in their hands, a marijuana cigarette, he took off running."

Once the suspect was out the window, he hopped over a fence and broke through the victim's back door. The homeowner explains, "I yelled ‘who's there? I have a gun’ and he started screaming and I walked out of my hallway into the living room and it was dark, there was a guy standing there, he had something in his hands, I was in fear for the safety of me and my family so I fired."

The man was shot in the hip and ran right out the front door and right into officers who tell 3TV it was a chair he had in his hands. Hill says, "If somebody feels that they're going to hit you over the head with a chair, obviously it could knock you out and then that person could kill you, take your gun, shoot you."

Investigators say the homeowner was justified. In fact, police say the man even warned the suspect with his 'Beware of Dog' sign.
The victim says he is relieved he did not kill the suspect. That suspect is still recovering in the hospital. 3TV is told he has a criminal history and warrants for his arrest.